Keane
Band
Kentish Town...& Gate" which featured early performances by Blur , The Housemartins, Suede , PJ Harvey, Ash , The Pogues, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Keane , The Libertines, Muse , The Shamen, Manic Street Preachers, and Coldplay. The pub was the site of... In this article: Kentish Town, London, Liberal Democrats, Green Party, Labour, Pub rock, St Paul, and Christ Church, Oxford |
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Times Online | July 16, 2009
A-ha: Foot of the Mountain
...of their ubiquity this decade. Coldplay and Keane have paid frequent and glowing tribute to the group whose biggest hits - Take on Me, The Sun Always Shines on TV - were in the charts more than two decades ago. Now, the partial return to...
In this article: Morten Harket, A-ha, Refracting, Frankmusik, I've Been Losing You, The Sun Always Shines on TV, Take on Me, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, and Coldplay
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Hecklerspray | November 02, 2009
X Factor Recap: Toodleoo, Rachel Adedeji
Stacey Solomon - If you read these X Factor recaps regularly, you maybe remember a few weeks ago, after Stacey performed a Coldplay song, we said: "Maybe next week Stacey Solomon will sing a Keane song and Louis Walsh will have an aneurysm. "...
In this article: X Factor, X Factor, and Simon Cowell
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SPIN.com - News | October 26, 2009
David Gray Launches U.S. Tour in Boston
...through with 1999's White Ladder. With nearly a decade of dust on it, that seminal record clearly paved the road for the rise of other heart-on-sleeve UK acts like Coldplay, Damien Rice, and Keane. Gray, however, moved away from that...
In this article: David Gray, White Ladder, Boston, Transcendence, This Years Love, Sail Away, Babylon, Please Forgive Me, and Narcotic
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NME Reviews | October 18, 2009
Album: Album review: Mr Hudson - 'Straight No Chaser'
...love-in as simply three globally massive artists comparing their respective vastnesses, but quite how perennial mattress-protector-requirers Keane persuaded on-the-rise Somali-Canadian rapper that it would be a good idea to work with them...
In this article: Jay-Z, Mr Hudson, The Blueprint 3, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Auto-Tune, Forever Young, and Dane Bowers
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The St. Petersburg Times | August 27, 2009
Chernov's choice
...perform at Glavclub on Wednesday. According to a BBC feature from 2004, the band mentions The Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths and Queen as influences, and have been memorably described as "Radiohead covering A-Ha. " Keane has also been compared to...
In this article: GZA, Wu-Tang Clan, Tim Rice-Oxley, Tricky, Coldplay, RZA, and Knowle West Boy
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PopMatters | October 02, 2009
One Hit Wonder: Not! (Sound Affects)
...Shines On TV - and that song rocks! Take on Me is NOT their best work. They have become well known musicians that have inspired bands like Coldplay, Keane and Oasis. Comment by Calvin Lawrence from Wisconsin - October 2, 2009 @ 10:26 am
In this article: A-ha, Romancing the Stone, Toy Soldiers, The Sun Always Shines on TV, Eddy Grant, Chris de Burgh, Don't Pay the Ferryman, Celice, Birthright, and Play That Funky Music
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deceptikons | March 14, 2009
Live 8 Concert Success - G8 Awaits
...Summit at Gleneagles, Scotland. Over 250,000 people turned out for the massive concert in Hyde Park which featured acts like Paul McCartney, Coldplay, Robbie Williams, Dido, Keane, Pink Floyd and Elton John. Parallel gigs took place in...
In this article: G8, Africa, Live 8, EU, Scotland, Dido, Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, Robert Mugabe, and Coldplay
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
Keane (band)
...the piano-based music and the alternative sound of the debut album, critics first regarded Keane as Coldplay imitators; the media however, in supporting Keane, started calling them the "new Coldplay", with reference to their recent commercial...
In this article: Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley, Hopes and Fears, Dominic Scott, Coldplay, The Beatles, Under the Iron Sea, Is It Any Wonder, and This Is the Last Time
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Daily Mail | April 30, 2009
From Myspace to Mainstream - The Maccabees join the indie-rock big guns
...realising their ambitions. Wall Of Arms, their second album, is a triumph that should see them move out of the nation's indie-rock clubs and on to the big stages occupied by Coldplay, Keane and Snow Patrol. Alongside their Fiction...
In this article: The Maccabees, Orlando Weeks, MySpace, The Clash, Maccabees, London, and Coldplay
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Description from Wikipedia:
Keane (IPA: /kiːn/) are an English piano rock band, first established in Battle, East Sussex in 1995, and taking their current name in 1997. The group comprises composer, bassist, and pianist Tim Rice-Oxley, lead vocalist Tom Chaplin and drummer Richard Hughes. Their original line-up included founder and guitarist Dominic Scott, who left in 2001.
Keane are known for using a piano as their lead instrument instead of guitars, significantly differentiating them from most rock bands. The inclusion of a distorted piano effect in 2006 and various synthesizers were a common feature in their music that back then combined the piano rock sound used during their first album and the alternative rock sound which developed during 2005. For their latest tracks, Keane have used new instrumentation such as banjo, violins, saxophone and, once again, acoustic guitar.
Their first two studio albums, Hopes and Fears and Under the Iron Sea achieved success in the United Kingdom upon release and very high sales worldwide: their multi-award-winning debut was the best-selling British album of 2004, and their sophomore sold up to 222,000 copies during its first week on sale in June 2006. In May 2008, both Hopes and Fears (#13) and Under the Iron Sea (#8) were voted by readers of Q magazine within the best British albums ever; Keane, The Beatles, Oasis and Radiohead were the only musical acts having two albums in the top 20.
The band's third studio album, Perfect Symmetry is to be released on October 13, 2008.
- Name:
- Keane
- Also Known As:
- The Lotus Eaters (1995-1998)
- Cherry Keane (1998)
- Origin:
- Battle, England
- Years Active:
- 1997 – present
- Current members:
- Former Members:
- Dominic Scott
- Genre:
- Piano rock
- Record Label:
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- Interscope
- Island
- Fierce Panda
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